Hibbett Sporting Goods employees traded shoes for drugs
Franklinton LA March 3 2019
Two employees of a Franklinton sporting goods store were arrested Wednesday (Feb. 27) in connection with the theft of $23,146 in merchandise, including 212 pairs of shoes, which were traded for drugs or sold, authorities said.
Arrested were Jenna Cosse, 25, the manager at Hibbett Sports at 1140 Washington St., and Elizabeth Reedy, 25, who had been a store employee for about four months, the Franklinton Police Department said.
Detective Sgt. Chad Dorsett said the thefts occurred since around the first of the year. The store’s loss prevention department investigated and called police in on Wednesday, he said.
Officers detained Cosse, who was trying to leave the area, the Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Reedy was found inside a vehicle in the store’s parking lot and was initially unresponsive to the officers’ presence, the post said. The strong odor or marijuana emanated from the vehicle, it said.
Investigators determined the pair had been engaged in a “narcotics for merchandise exchange as well as trading merchandise for cash,” the Police Department said.
Cosse was booked with felony theft between $5,000 and $25,000, felony possession of a legend drug, felony possession of Schedule III narcotics, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, two counts of felony possession of Schedule II narcotics and four counts of felony possession of Schedule IV narcotics.
Reedy was booked with being a principal to felony theft between $5,000 and $25,000, misdemeanor possession of marijuana, felony possession of Schedule II narcotics and felony possession of Schedule IV narcotics.
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